overjudge

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overjudge

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From over- + judge.

verb overjudges · overjudging · overjudged

  1. transitive To judge excessively or too harshly. It seems incongruous for the plaintiff to claim that the defendant should overjudge him in a matter in which he assumed to judge and to do all that he required or supposed necessary to be done in the premises, and that the defendant should be responsible for the inadequacy of what the plaintiff adju

Opposite: underjudge

noun overjudges

  1. A supreme or superior judge. But without importing into the case any extravagant conclusions, no doubt need be entertained that the overjudge at Strassburg wielded an immense influence; although, looking at the whole spirit of the Ordinances before us, it is hardly conceivable that his judicial decisions were promulgated on his

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@misc{overjudge_2026,
  title = {overjudge},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/overjudge},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}